Muslim Salam

Muslim Salam (18 November 1986-22 June 2016) was an al-Qaeda (later al-Nusra Front) operations planner.

Biography
Muslim Salam was born on 18 November 1986 in al-Qisa, Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria to a Sunni Muslim Arab family. Salam worked at a factory, building cassette tapes, but he decided to join al-Qaeda after coming into contact with Amin Radi, an al-Qaeda recruiter in Syria. Salam was involved in the Iraq War as an al-Qaeda operations planner, and he was involved in IED attacks against the United States during the war. When the Syrian Civil War broke out, Salam became an al-Nusra planner, and he was involved in planning out offensives against the Syrian Arab Army as well as organizing suicide bombings. On 22 June 2016, he was killed in a US Air Force airstrike on Idlib.